Northwest Florida Community Hospital (Snu)
1360 Brickyard Rd, Chipley FL 32428 · (850) 415-7400 · 99.7% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Chipley, Florida, Northwest Florida Community Hospital (Snu) is one of a mere two nursing homes in this city. This is a quality nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good score. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a solid choice for most people. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to providing well above average levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.23077 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.35 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. The nursing score weighs numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This place provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an impressive figure. Finally, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area. Even with multiple favorable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless a bit alarming so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, it looks like it provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 26.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Northwest Florida Community Hospital (Snu) Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better